Architect your apps for scale, uptime, and the unexpected

In this practical guide written by a distributed systems expert, learn how to build apps that scale to handle unpredictable traffic with zero downtime for customers. In this book excerpt you will learn:

• How scaling affects the availability of your services
• Principles of service-based application architecture and their role in reducing service failures and brownouts
• Common design patterns for managing
• How to understand, measure, and mitigate risk in your systems
• When and how to move to cloud infrastructure